February 27, 2008

Leather + multitouch = foxy

Ooh, now that’s nice: student Nedzad Mujcinovic has crafted “Livre,” a concept for a leather-wrapped, multitouch-aware electronic book. Check out the photos as well as the overview. Could a large e-ink screen, organic materials, gesture-based navigation, and a minimum of button clutter change the game and make e-books widespread? It would be fun to find out. [Via]

In other cool device news:

Small format:

Like sketching ideas on cocktail napkins, but wish they were more expensive and susceptible to water damage? Then perhaps you’d like the Napkin PC. Naw, the concept is cooler than that–especially if you could combine multiple Napkin PCs into a single work area. [Via Jana Sedivy]

Inchworm brings sketching and painting to the Nintendo DS. It was created by Bob Sabiston, the developer of the “Rotoshop” software used to create Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. [Via Greg Geisler]

Nokia envisions a future full of shape-shifting phones; peep the video for their Morph concept.